Things are not going great in the Mideast. With President Donald Trump doubling down on the battle over the Strait of Hormuz, petroleum prices won’t drop anytime soon. Nor will prices of nitrogen and ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter. He's written hundreds of articles breaking down complex financial topics in plain language, emphasizing the impact that economic ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter. He's written hundreds of articles breaking down complex financial topics in plain language, emphasizing the impact that economic ...

The Yiddish phrase “farshlepteh krenk”, untranslatable into English, describes an illness that just won’t go away. That is how some countries’ experience of inflation has felt. The rate of price rises ...

T he war against Iran that America and Israel launched two months ago caused a surge in oil prices, which could reignite ...

At 3.4%, the March inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), is only slightly higher than February’s 3.21%. How does the CPI differ from the Wholesale Price Index (WPI)? In Beyond ...

Tariffs are usually applied to imported goods—but in an interconnected economy, their effects can be felt in the prices of other goods and services. Estimates using data across multiple advanced ...